Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency

Representative experience

Kodak Pension Plan on settlement in Chapter 11 proceedings for Eastman Kodak. Offices involved: London, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid, Caracas, Moscow, and Rome.

Advised on the restructuring of the European Care Group involving pre-packaged administrations in England and Guernsey.

Acting for Madison Pacific as Security Trustee in relation to contested application by UK administrators of African Minerals Limited for recognition and assistance in Hong Kong.

Advised FMS Wertmanagement and Erste Abwicklungsanstalt on establishment of German wind-down institution and on various debt restructurings in Germany, Spain, the U.S., and the UK.

Media Mention

Court Ruling Casts Fresh Doubt on China’s ‘Keepwell’ Bonds Bloomberg

18 May 2023

Hogan Lovells Hong Kong partners Jonathan Leitch and Byron Phillips have been quoted by Bloomberg and other media outlets, sharing their insights on the highly anticipated ruling in the...

Media Mention

Germany’s new StaRUG is good - but slightly less good, due to last minute changes Global Turnaround

January 2021

It is striking how Europe’s insolvency and restructuring innovations are aimed at taking English prototypes as a role model and improving them even as the UK exits the EU, potentially ...

Webinar

Distress and insolvency in the oil and gas industry

10 April 2020

The global economy is facing unprecedented challenges, and the oil and gas industry is no exception. Whether your business or investment is grappling with financial distress or potential...